Accomplishments

Congratulations, Dr. Reed!! Jim won the SBS Faculty of the Quarter in Teaching Award!!

Mohamed had chapter, Sufism and Communism: The Poetry of Fu’ad Haddad, published in Cultural Fusion of Sufi Islam: Alternative Paths to Mystical Faith edited by Sarwar Alam (2019).

Jessie’s book review was just published.

Finch, Jessie K. 2019. Review of Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State, by Chandra Russo. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 24 (3): 398. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24.3.389

Dr. Schipper presented her paper, Water Sustainability in the Arid Southwest: An Indigenous Water Ethic” at the Association for Humanist Sociology annual meeting in October.

Dr. Moreno is a presenter on the panel, “Charting the Broader Impacts of the San Francisco State Strike and Late-1960s Campus Movement” at the American Studies Association annual meeting in November.

Dr. Beeman presented “Promoting Inclusion at the University: A Case Study of Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education” at the 3^rd World Congress on Humanities and Social Sciences meeting held in October.

Dr. Kunze’s paper, “An Argument for Defining Ethnocide” has been accepted for presentation at the American Society of Criminology Meeting in November.

Dr. Finch recently reviewed a book, Solidarity in Practice by Chandra Russo and the review is published in Mobilization.

Katsuya recently published an article: Oi, Katsuya and Steven Haas. 2019. Cardiometabolic Risk and Cognitive Decline: The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and Adulthood. Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Dr. Schipper co-authored a book called Teaching with Compassion: An Educator’s Oath to Teach from the Heart.  It’s being published by Rowman & Littlefield and is scheduled for release in August, 2018.  In addition, she is attending a Conference entitled “Buddhism in Dialogue with Contemporary Society” in Hamburg, Germany this June.  Her talk is entitled “Social Dharma: How Buddhist Principles Radically Alter Our Understanding of Self and Society.”  Finally, she’s written a book chapter entitled “Buddhist Water Ethics and the Case of Water Scarcity in the American West.”  This chapter will appear in Purser, Stanley and Singh (eds.) Ethical Foundations of Mindfulness published by Springer.

Through a Diversity Supplement award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Angela A. A. Willeto, Ph.D. was mentored in the Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach with American Indian communities. The Diversity Supplement is a mentoring grant ‘housed’ under a parent grant of The Center for American Indian Resilience (CAIR) that was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health – National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), as an Exploratory Center of Excellence